ASWB MSW Exam Vocab Questions And
Answers.
Aversion Therapy -
\any treatment aimed at reducing the attractiveness of a stimulus or a behavior by
repeated parking of it with an averse stimulus. An example is treating alcoholism with
Antabuse.
Biofeedback -
\behavior trying program that teaches a person how to control certain functions such as
hear rate, blood pressure, temperature and muscular tension. Biofeedback is often used
for ADHD and Anxiety.
Extinction -
\Witholding a reinforcer that normally follows a behavior. Behavior that fails to produce
reinforcement will eventually cease.
Flooding -
\a treatment procedure in which a client's anxiety is extinguished by prolonged real or
imagined exposure to high intensity feared stimuli.
In vivo desensitization -
\pairing and movement through a hierarchy of anxiety from least to most anxiety
provoking situations; takes place in "real" setting.
Modeling -
\method of instruction that involves an individual demonstrating the behavior to be
acquired by a client
Rational emotive therapy (RET) -
\-cognitively-oriented therapy in which the social worker seeks to change client's
irrational beliefs by argument, persuasion, and rational reevaluation and by teaching the
client to counter self-defeating thinking with new, nondistressing self-statements.
Shaping -
\method used to train a new behavior by prompting and reinforcing successive
approximations of the desired behavior.
Systematic Desensitization -
\An anxiety-inhibiting response cannot occur at the same times as the anxiety response.
Anxiety producing stimulus is paired with relaxation producing stimulus produces a
relaxation response. At each step a client's reaction of fear or dread is overcome by
,pleasant feeling engendered as the new behavior is reinforced by receiving a reward.
The reward could be a compliment, a gift or relaxation
Time out -
\Removal of something desirable - negative punishment technique
token economy -
\a client receives tokens as reinforcement for performing specified behaviors. The
tokens function as current within the environment and can be exchanged for desired
good, services or privileges.
Deficiency needs -
\Physiological, Safety, Social, and Esteem
Growth Needs -
\self-actualization
When is the most critical period for developing attachment? -
\the first 5 years
Authoritarian parenting -
\children are expected to follow the struct rules established by the parents.
Permissive parenting -
\parents have very few demands on their children, take on the role as a friend
Authoritative parenting -
\parents set limits and enforce rules but are flexible and listen to their children
Uninvolved parenting -
\few hands, low responsiveness and little communication
Harriet Bartlett -
\help people identify and resolve or reduce problems arising out of disequilibrium
between individuals, groups and the environment; and to seek out and strengthen
maximum potential of individuals
Helen Perlman -
\help individuals effectively copy with social functioning problems
Mary Woods and Florence Hollis -
\Help people cope with intrapsychic, interpersonal, and environmental problems that
cause personal suffering
John Dewey -
\known for role theory, problem solving theory
, Motivations for change in problem solving approach -
\-Disequilibrium between what is and what the client wants
-conscious desire to achieve change
-positive expectations based on new life possibilities
-the strength of a supportive relationship and positive expectation of the worker
4 P's of basic elements involved in treatment -
\a person has a problem, comes to a place for help given through a process
Crisis Intervention Assessment -
\-exploration of the stress- producing event or situation and individual's response to it,
as well as response the crises in the recent past
-Characteristics signs and phases, patterns of adaption and maladaption to crisis
-necessity for quick action stimulates a highly forces assessment that emphasizes
current state of functioning and internal and environmental supports and deficits
Important social workers associated with crisis intervention -
\Lydia Rapoport, Howard Parad, Rosemary Lukton
Behavioral treatment planning -
\-Priority problems are selected and their maintain conditions are identified.
-The client is engaged in establishing targets for change.
-Baseline data are established about frequency of the behavior
-A written or an oral contract is developed
Important social workers associated with behavior modification -
\Edwin Thomas and Joel Fisher
Treatment planning for Cognitive theory -
\-Establish baseline data: The client's negative automatic thoughts ("I'm such a loser"),
distortions ("he must be thinking how stupid I am") and dysfunctional beliefs ("I have to
be perfect at what I do")
-Establish target goals for change and alternative ways of thinking
-Agree to contact for goals, homework, time frame
Boundary -
\the means of organization by which the parts of a system can be differeientated from
the environment in which the system exists and which differentiates subsystems from
one another.
Subsystem -
\a subset of the whole system
Entropy -
\The randomness, disorder or chaos in a system
Answers.
Aversion Therapy -
\any treatment aimed at reducing the attractiveness of a stimulus or a behavior by
repeated parking of it with an averse stimulus. An example is treating alcoholism with
Antabuse.
Biofeedback -
\behavior trying program that teaches a person how to control certain functions such as
hear rate, blood pressure, temperature and muscular tension. Biofeedback is often used
for ADHD and Anxiety.
Extinction -
\Witholding a reinforcer that normally follows a behavior. Behavior that fails to produce
reinforcement will eventually cease.
Flooding -
\a treatment procedure in which a client's anxiety is extinguished by prolonged real or
imagined exposure to high intensity feared stimuli.
In vivo desensitization -
\pairing and movement through a hierarchy of anxiety from least to most anxiety
provoking situations; takes place in "real" setting.
Modeling -
\method of instruction that involves an individual demonstrating the behavior to be
acquired by a client
Rational emotive therapy (RET) -
\-cognitively-oriented therapy in which the social worker seeks to change client's
irrational beliefs by argument, persuasion, and rational reevaluation and by teaching the
client to counter self-defeating thinking with new, nondistressing self-statements.
Shaping -
\method used to train a new behavior by prompting and reinforcing successive
approximations of the desired behavior.
Systematic Desensitization -
\An anxiety-inhibiting response cannot occur at the same times as the anxiety response.
Anxiety producing stimulus is paired with relaxation producing stimulus produces a
relaxation response. At each step a client's reaction of fear or dread is overcome by
,pleasant feeling engendered as the new behavior is reinforced by receiving a reward.
The reward could be a compliment, a gift or relaxation
Time out -
\Removal of something desirable - negative punishment technique
token economy -
\a client receives tokens as reinforcement for performing specified behaviors. The
tokens function as current within the environment and can be exchanged for desired
good, services or privileges.
Deficiency needs -
\Physiological, Safety, Social, and Esteem
Growth Needs -
\self-actualization
When is the most critical period for developing attachment? -
\the first 5 years
Authoritarian parenting -
\children are expected to follow the struct rules established by the parents.
Permissive parenting -
\parents have very few demands on their children, take on the role as a friend
Authoritative parenting -
\parents set limits and enforce rules but are flexible and listen to their children
Uninvolved parenting -
\few hands, low responsiveness and little communication
Harriet Bartlett -
\help people identify and resolve or reduce problems arising out of disequilibrium
between individuals, groups and the environment; and to seek out and strengthen
maximum potential of individuals
Helen Perlman -
\help individuals effectively copy with social functioning problems
Mary Woods and Florence Hollis -
\Help people cope with intrapsychic, interpersonal, and environmental problems that
cause personal suffering
John Dewey -
\known for role theory, problem solving theory
, Motivations for change in problem solving approach -
\-Disequilibrium between what is and what the client wants
-conscious desire to achieve change
-positive expectations based on new life possibilities
-the strength of a supportive relationship and positive expectation of the worker
4 P's of basic elements involved in treatment -
\a person has a problem, comes to a place for help given through a process
Crisis Intervention Assessment -
\-exploration of the stress- producing event or situation and individual's response to it,
as well as response the crises in the recent past
-Characteristics signs and phases, patterns of adaption and maladaption to crisis
-necessity for quick action stimulates a highly forces assessment that emphasizes
current state of functioning and internal and environmental supports and deficits
Important social workers associated with crisis intervention -
\Lydia Rapoport, Howard Parad, Rosemary Lukton
Behavioral treatment planning -
\-Priority problems are selected and their maintain conditions are identified.
-The client is engaged in establishing targets for change.
-Baseline data are established about frequency of the behavior
-A written or an oral contract is developed
Important social workers associated with behavior modification -
\Edwin Thomas and Joel Fisher
Treatment planning for Cognitive theory -
\-Establish baseline data: The client's negative automatic thoughts ("I'm such a loser"),
distortions ("he must be thinking how stupid I am") and dysfunctional beliefs ("I have to
be perfect at what I do")
-Establish target goals for change and alternative ways of thinking
-Agree to contact for goals, homework, time frame
Boundary -
\the means of organization by which the parts of a system can be differeientated from
the environment in which the system exists and which differentiates subsystems from
one another.
Subsystem -
\a subset of the whole system
Entropy -
\The randomness, disorder or chaos in a system
